Doesn't support add customised `buildType`?

[zhaoyi0113]

I am trying to add a new buildType in my android application. I edited build-extras.gradle as below

android {
    buildTypes {
    
        staging {
            initWith release
        }
    }
}

After that the change is added to platforms/android/build-extras.gradle but the build will fail because the module platforms/android/CordovaLib/build.gradle doesn't have such configuration. If I added the this configuration on platforms/android/CordovaLib/build.gradle manually, the command cordova build android --release will success but it doesn't generate the staging APK.

[ronytesler]

Did you solve it?

[romaia]

I am interested in a solution for this as well.

[jcesarmobile]

You should be able to use

staging {
    matchingFallbacks = ['release']
}

That should fallback to the release build when the staging flavor is not available